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EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0231 · as of 2026-10-23 · about: Thomas Hobbes · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651 and argued, using the social-contract method, that people should submit to an absolute and undivided sovereign power because life without government would lack basic security.”

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